Philip Slomovitz Collection Papers, 1919-1991 76.5 linear feet 153 manuscript boxes

Accession # 1494 DALNET# OCLC# Philip Slomovitz, called the dean of Jewish-American journalists, was born in Russia in 1897 and emigrated to the in 1910, settling in Bayonne, New Jersey. He began his career in journalism as an apprentice at the University of Michigan's Michigan Daily, where he later served as night editor. During his early career, he worked on the copy desk and as a reporter for The Detroit News and as an editor of the Jewish Pictorial. He also worked for the Jewish Telegraphic Agency news service and was editor and columnist for . In 1942, he founded The Jewish News, which absorbed the Chronicle. For almost fifty years, until the sale of The Jewish News in 1984, Slomovitz used the paper as a vehicle to champion Jewish causes as well as promote amity among diverse peoples. He lived through and reported upon many history-making events, including Henry Ford's anti- Semitism, broadcast propaganda and Vatican silencing of Royal Oak radio priest, Father Coughlin, the founding of the United Nations, birth of the state of , and the trial of Adolph Eichmann, Hitler's director of the "final solution." Mr. Slomovitz was a founder of the Detroit Roundtable of Christians and Jews. He was a strong supporter of the Jewish Red Cross and served as president of the local branch of the Jewish National Fund, the American Jewish Press Association, the Zionist Organization of Detroit, and the Detroit chapter of the American Jewish Congress. He also served on the board of the United Hebrew Schools. He was the author of two books, Without Malice and Purely Commentary: Philip Slomovitz's 60 Years as a Newspaperman. His editorials and columns sometimes made national news. He was the recipient of numerous honors. Although legally blind for most of his life, Slomovitz typed his own material until 1991. He relied on his memory and his nine file cabinets of clippings, articles, personal correspondence, and background information to tie current events to previous episodes in Jewish history. In 1992, he donated the contents of these file cabinets to the newly-created Jewish Community Archives. The Philip Slomovitz papers were arranged and described by the Jewish Historical Society of Michigan under the supervision of Judith Levin Cantor. Among the important subjects are: Anti-Semitism Holocaust Middle East Arabs Israel Negroes Black-Jewish Relations Jewish Charities PLO Butzel, Fred Jewish Customs & Culture Refugees Coughlin, Father Charles Jewish Educat Trifa, Bishop Valerian Detroit Jewish Press Ford, Henry Meir, Golda Slomovitz Collection 1 SLOMOVITZ ARCHIVES BOX 1

Aaronson, Aaron Abram, Morris D. Aaronson, Maurice Abu- Diab Aaronson, Sarah Abu Ghosh Abarbanel, Don Isaac Abyssinia Abdullah Acheson, Dean Abel, El Ackerman, Martin S. Abergil, Reuben Adamic, Louis Abortion A-Alig Abourezk, James All-Az Aden Adenauer Adler, Dr. Bernard Adinoff, Dr. Bernard

BOX 2 Adler, Dr. Cyrus Adler, Jacob Adler, Larry Adler, Leo Adler, Rabbi Morris Adoption Adventures Afghanistan Agnew, Spiro Agnon, sy AgriculTure Agudath Israel Ahad Ha-Am Agus, Dr. Jacob Air France Akiba, Rabbi Akim Alaska, 1 & 2

BOX 3 Albert, Jacob Albo, Joseph Alexandrovich, Ruth Aleppo Algeria Alien Legislation Al1en, Henry D. Al1en, Ri chard Allman, David Allocations to Jewish Education Allon, Yigdal Slomovitz Collection 2

BOX 3, CONT IISTZJEID Almug, Yehudah Alpert, Carl Alphabet Alsop, Joseph Al Tidom Altelend Amadeo, Dr. Marco Amberg, Julius American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) American Council American Council for Judaism, 1 & 2 BOX: 4 American Friends of the Middle East American Jewish Committee American Jewish Conference on the American Jewish Congress, 1 & 2 American Jewry Ame